Example sentences of "and had a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Lord Dulverton was a leading wildlife campaigner and forester and had a lifelong dedication to forestry and to deer . |
2 | Oh yes , she 's got the house , and had a good talk to me , and help |
3 | Rose at six dressed hastily got some breakfast and had a pleasant row to the island . |
4 | They were , generally speaking , well informed about international politics and had a sceptical attitude to news ; they discussed their government 's internal policies and decrees , in particular relating them to different conceptions of government , freedom and justice : their talk of socialism , democracy , dictatorship was by no means purely theoretical . |
5 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
6 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
7 | The first was an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , living on her own in a local authority flat ; she had very poor mobility , was subject to falls , and had an increasing tendency to incontinence ; she could not manage her own personal care nor the care of her home . |
8 | The rink was on two levels and had an Alpine atmosphere to it with pine trees and the snowflake effects . |